[Assessing clinic's panel of general practitioners in Qazvin]

ABSTRACT

This descriptive study was aimed to assess clinic's panels of the general practitioners and the compliance with the general standards and criteria on the clinic panels of 60 general practitioners in Qazvin city in 2009. Of the total, 30% of the physicians had written the title of "general practitioners" on their panels and 66/61% of them had written 3 special practicing fields such as internal diseases, pediatrics, dermatology, etc and 66/21% of them had written 4 special practicing fields on their panels. All of the panels had not Iranian medical council sign. Also all of the panels within the normal size 50x70 cm as standards and 66/86% of the panels had a white background. Owing to the misplacement of the general practitioners in medical service versus specialists in the health system dos not work, ignoring the effectiveness of their roles in the health care and the lack of awareness of the citizens can be the reasons for not writing the title of "general practitioners" on their panels and the use of special practicing field names